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Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web — Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a smile, a laugh, a whisper or a cheer, we connect with others every single day. — Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Google+ won't hurt Facebook, but Skype will hate it — Google launched its much awaited and highly anticipated social networking platform today to a limited number of users. Dubbed Google+ (Plus), the service may take its cue from social networking giant Facebook …
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ReadWriteWeb and Simply Zesty
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Does The Google+ Interface Remind You Of Facebook? You're Not The Only One — There's no question about it: Google+ genuinely looks good. But, as thousands of people have already noted and joked about, it also really does look a lot like Facebook. — UX designer and consultant UXboy agrees …
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The Business Insider and @uxboy
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Facebook Competitor, The Google+ Social Network, Finally Arrives — Google's long expected second shot at taking on Facebook in the social networking space has arrived in the form of the Google+ Project. It has some interesting twists on the social networking model but is far from a Facebook-killer.
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Guardian, Search Engine Roundtable, New York Times and New Media Age
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
While We Await The Native App, The Google+ iPhone Mobile Web App Is Pretty Solid
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iPodNN, Pocket-lint and 9 to 5 Mac
Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines Blog:
Beware the buzz about Google+
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TechCrunch and parislemon
Steven Levy / Wired.com:
Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social
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Engadget, Search Engine Watch, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, RazorianFly, @jsmarr, Poynter, Web.AppStorm, MediaPost, Beyond Search, Examiner, iFans and IntoMobile
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Google gave original Mac designer free rein on new Google+ UI
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blog.chron.com, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Electronista
Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Why the Browser Matters … Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Accel, Khosla, and Andreessen Horowitz Pour Another $30 Million Into Social Browser RockMelt
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eWeek, AllThingsD, Bits, hypebot, GigaOM, Social Markets, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, FT Tech Hub, Reuters and The Business Insider, Thanks:cindywaters
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple officially responds to Final Cut Pro X complaints with new FAQ website, next ‘major release’ coming with fixes — By now, most people that are interested in Apple and/or video editing have heard about the ongoing criticism towards Apple's latest professional movie making software …
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CNET News, Computerworld, AppleInsider, GigaOM, Network World, Geek.com, TiPb, RazorianFly, thinq_, MacRumors, ITProPortal, MacStories, The Next Web, Macworld and Tools
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Adobe welcomes Final Cut Pro users with open arms
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PC World, SlashGear and AppleInsider, Thanks:theloop1
Dan Frommer / The Business Insider:
Square Raises $100 Million Round At $1 Billion Valuation, Led By Kleiner Perkins — Square, the mobile payments company led by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is raising $100 million in new financing, led by big-time VC firm Kleiner Perkins, the WSJ reports. — The round values Square at $1 billion …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung files ITC complaint against Apple:long-time partners heading for ugly divorce? — The ITC website shows that yesterday Samsung filed complaint no. 337-2824 concerning the following types of products: Mobile Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices …
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iPhone Buzz, The Next Web, SlashGear, TiPb and TUAW, Thanks:fosspatents
Chris Wiggins / The Official Google Blog:
Evolving the Google design and experience — Starting today, you might begin noticing that things look a little different across Google products. We're working on a project to bring you a new and improved Google experience, and over the next few months, you'll continue to see more updates to our look and feel.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AmazonFresh app debuts on Microsoft's Windows Phone — AmazonFresh, the online retailer's grocery delivery service, released a mobile app today, developed on its behalf by digital agency Metia/Seattle. Nope, it's not for Android, or even iPhone, neither of which has a full-fledged AmazonFresh app yet.
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PhoneArena, SlashGear, Pulse2, GottaBeMobile, MobileBurn.com and Gizmodo
Biz Stone:
It's So Obvious — My career in developing large scale systems that allow people to express themselves and communicate started in 1999 with Xanga. I left after a couple years and got more academic about the democratization of information on the web. Ironically, I wrote two books about blogging.
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Inquirer, GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, Bloomberg, PE Hub Blog, The Blog Herald, Macworld, TechCrunch, Digits, @ev, Guardian, The Business Insider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Fortune, TechEye, @anildash and Wall Street Journal
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
MediaMall's PlayLater Promises To Be A DVR For Internet Video, Enters Limited Beta — MediaMall, the folks behind the popular PlayOn media software, just announced the closed beta of PlayLater, a so-called DVR for online video. The service, which is available in a closed beta starting today …
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BGR, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Seattle Times and playon.tv
Luisa Kroll / Worth While:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Is Now Richer Than The Google Guys — In news reported by my colleague Tomio Geron yesterday, publicly-traded closed-end mutual fund GSV Capital (nasdaq GSVC) bought 225,000 shares of the social networking giant Facebook at an average price of $29.28 per share or a valuation of about $70 billion.
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Signal vs. Noise, Friending Facebook Blog, Techland, The Business Insider and Geek.com
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
FBI Raids Iowa Woman's Home in Lulz Security Hacker Investigation — The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but law enforcement's hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman's home because of her connections to the group.
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Help Net Security, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, TechEye and Gizmodo Australia
Patrick Gray / risky.biz:
Groupon leaks entire Indian user database — The entire user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary Sosasta.com was accidentally published to the Internet and indexed by Google. The database includes the e-mail addresses and clear-text passwords of the site's 300,000 users.
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Reuters, The Huffington Post, WATBlog.com, memeburn, Darknet, The Register, Chicago Business and NBC Chicago
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Groupon Cedes Share of Daily Deals to LivingSocial, Yipit Says — Groupon's share of online daily deals slipped to 48% in May, from 52% in April, as rivals including LivingSocial closed in on its market lead — (Bloomberg) — Groupon Inc.'s share of online daily deals slipped to 48 percent …
Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
AntiSec Slams Arizona Cops (Again) with Super Personal Data Spill — Looks like last week's “Chinga La Migra” strike against the Arizona Border Police was only part one—the sequel's landed today, and this time it's personal. Like, really personal: Anonymous is claiming social security numbers, girlfriend pics, and more.
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@anonymousirc and Gawker
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Everyone Loves Hadoop, So Cloudera Makes It Easier to Manage — Name a Web company of any size doing anything reasonably complex and chances are they're using Hadoop. Its open source software that makes working with big data sets practical in distributed computing environments.
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InfoWorld, The Register, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal
Hipmunk Blog:
New: Find Flights that Have Wi-Fi! — At Hipmunk, we're travel nerds, but we're also nerd nerds. That means we like the Internet, especially on our flights. — We've heard that many of you like wi-fi on your planes, too—either when you're traveling for work or when you just need some quality Facebook time.
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GigaOM, The Next Web, IntoMobile, SocialTimes.com and VentureBeat
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Major development in Facebook case: Paul Ceglia's lawyers quit — Status update on Paul Ceglia, the New York state man who claims he is entitled to half of Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar stake in Facebook: The big-firm lawyers who lent credibility to his case have quit.
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Betabeat, Inquirer, CNET News, The Register, NBC Bay Area, paidContent, Techdirt, Inside Facebook, The Business Insider, All Facebook and Mashable!
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
After a Long Flight, Angry Birds Make Landing on Windows Phone — It has taken some time, but the Angry Birds have finally slingshot their way onto Windows Phone. — Expectations were of the beloved birds arrival were first set when the app was inadvertently listed on a slide of launch titles last year …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Sites Now Allows You To Create A Mobile Landing Page — Google has long offered Google Sites, which gives businesses and consumers a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making it relatively easy for anyone without a technical background to build a simple website.
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Google Mobile Ads Blog, Guardian, Pulse2 and FierceMobileContent
